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Hornsea wave buoy daily means for Jul 2021

Daily means from the Hornsea wave buoy for Jul 2021, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,482 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 1.6 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.9–2.7 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 5.4 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.1–7.5 seconds). Mean water temperature was 14.8°C (10th–90th percentile 13.3–16°C). 5 of 5,907 checked values (0.1%) were excluded by quality control. Across 11 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 1.9 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 5.7 seconds.

Generated only from the observations and comparisons shown on this page.

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.6ft
Mean: 1.7 ft
P10–P90: 0.9 — 2.7 ft
Recorded extremes

0.5 — 4.4 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

5.4secs
P10–P90: 3.1 — 7.5secs
Recorded extremes

1.7 — 12.5secs

Available for 741 of 743 hourly samples

Observed Wave Direction

ENE

Circular concentration: 73%

Mean Water Temperature

14.8°C
P10–P90: 13.3 — 16°C
Recorded extremes

12.6 — 16.8°C

Compared With Previous Julys

Historical baseline from 16,240 observations across 11 years.

Wave Height
1.7ft
0.2ft below mean
Historical mean 1.87ft
Wave Period
5.4s
0.3s below mean
Historical mean 5.7s
Water Temperature
14.8°C
0.4°C above mean
Historical mean 14.4°C

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Hornsea. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. To open hourly observations, use a linked day name in the table.

About Hornsea wave buoy

Hornsea is a Channel Coastal Observatory wave station off the rapidly eroding Holderness coast of East Yorkshire. Its North Sea record provides local wave context for Hornsea's defended frontage and the adjacent soft-cliff coastline, where storms drive substantial shoreline change.

Its current data source reports wave height, wave period, wave direction, directional spread, wave power and sea temperature.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Hornsea wave buoy daily means Jul 2021Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)4222121111112333211112222211223
Mean maximum wave height (ft)6333232112223454312223234311334
Mean peak period (s)87554555433455676666810765663356
Mean zero-crossing period (s)5444333433334445544445544443344
Mean energy period (s)-------------------------------
Mean wave power, kilowatts per metre-------------------------------
Mean peak wave directionNNEconcentration 100%NEconcentration 98%ENEconcentration 93%Econcentration 97%ESEconcentration 92%ESEconcentration 100%ESEconcentration 97%Econcentration 98%ENEconcentration 82%ESEconcentration 99%ESEconcentration 98%Econcentration 98%NNEconcentration 94%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 99%NEconcentration 99%NEconcentration 100%NEconcentration 97%NEconcentration 91%ENEconcentration 74%NEconcentration 87%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 99%NEconcentration 98%NEconcentration 96%NEconcentration 98%NEconcentration 99%Variableconcentration 18%WSWconcentration 81%NEconcentration 90%NNEconcentration 97%
Mean directional spread (°)15.019.224.324.424.122.033.034.331.027.326.428.622.520.117.619.722.329.124.128.227.217.822.420.927.022.724.328.422.733.720.7
Mean water temperature(°C)12.713.013.013.613.613.613.814.214.214.114.314.414.314.514.715.015.315.515.715.816.015.915.915.815.815.815.915.815.615.515.5

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Wave metric colour key

Colours move through the scale as each number increases. They do not by themselves mean that conditions are good, safe or suitable for you.

Wave & swell height0–40+ ft
Wave & swell period0–22+ s
Wind speed0–75 mph

The displayed numbers remain the source of truth; colour is an additional visual cue.

What does buoy wave power mean?

kW/m means kilowatts of wave power per metre of wave crest. It describes the rate at which the observed sea state carries energy past the buoy.

Unlike the shore-directed forecast value, buoy wave power is the total power at the observation point. It is not projected towards a particular beach and does not predict breaking wave height.

In deep water, wave power can be calculated with:

P is approximately 0.49 times significant wave height squared times wave energy period.

P is power in kW/m, Hs is significant wave height in metres, and Te is wave energy period in seconds.

  • Provider-reported power is used when available.
  • Otherwise, a value is calculated only when both significant height and a genuine energy period are available. The ≈ symbol marks calculated values.
  • A dash is shown instead of substituting peak, Tm02, zero-crossing or other period measurements.
  • Daily and monthly figures use the mean of hourly-normalized observation power values; they are not calculated from mean height and period.

Wave direction, spectrum, water depth and local bathymetry still matter. Wave power is best read alongside height, period and direction rather than as a standalone surf-quality score.

The observation data displayed on this page is from the Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme.

Learn how SurfHog combines, checks and summarizes observations in the data and methodology notes.

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